Panchkula, June 6 -- A 42-year-old cloth merchant was brutally murdered in broad daylight by a group of five unidentified assailants in Haryana's Pinjore town on Friday,The deceased, identified as Jitesh Manocha, owned a garment shop, Manocha Cloth House, in the town's main market.
According to eyewitnesses, Manocha was sitting inside his black Scorpio vehicle parked near his shop when the attackers arrived armed with sticks and knives. The assailants allegedly opened the vehicle's door, dragged Manocha out onto the road and launched a violent attack.
Witnesses said the attackers repeatedly struck him on the head, face, back and abdomen with sticks and sharp-edged weapons. Even after he collapsed on the road, the attackers continued assau...